Oh, my amygdala! We’ve danced this exhausting dance too many times before. There is no use beating around the bush, we both know these overreactions don’t help. Yes, there are things I want you to attend to but please do not set off alarm systems for every petty variation in my experience! It’s exhausting and… Read More Retraining my Brain with The Gupta Programme

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OnlyinthisHead.com

Welcome to Only in this Head: Chronic Illness Life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome! This informational website is designed to help others along the journey of chronic illness with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and it's associated conditions. My hope is by sharing my own story, I can help others find their way to diagnosis and to living a life of peaceful harmony within incurable and misunderstood disease processes, like my own. My chronic illness journey to diagnosis is a tale encompassing 30 some years since my first symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome appeared and when I was finally diagnosed EDS official in 2016. While no longer able to practice as a nurse, I still aspire to help others through sharing my experiences as I navigate life with multiple chronic illnesses and a desire to understand the greater meaning of it all.